Foster/ McCabe/ Andriaccio/ Castellani - American Idyll: American Songs from 1800-1860Foster McCabe Andriaccio Castellani American Idyll: American Songs from 1800 1860

The choice of cantatas for this recording was governed by two guiding principles: the subject matter of the Epiphany period

Robert Franz

in his libretto for the opera Nikola Šubic Zrinski

joined by a makeshift light board with various bulbs and green skull strobe light

DSCH transliterated into notation

Ray Noble and Glenn Miller

Occasionally an artist emerges with a talent and sound that throws them directly into the limelight

After presenting a program of gnarly originals for quartet on "Ultimatum" (CRC #1222)

A Washington

including "fifth member" Craig Gannon

fire and elegance

the soft-spoken senior sleuth who succeeds where young policemen fail